Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
March 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 87
- Adam (9)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (3)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (5)
- Jenny (2)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (14)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (17)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (3)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 44
- Rust Never Sleeps (0)
- Jimmy Houston’s Guide to Bass Fishin’ (0)
- Neil Young: Heart of Gold (0)
- He Who Hits First, Hits Twice: The Urgent Cinema of Santiago Álvarez (0)
- The Ringer (0)
- Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (0)
- V For Vendetta (0)
- King Kong (0)
- Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (0)
- Hangmen Also Die! (0)
- Night of the Creeps (1)
- Sky High (0)
- King Kong (0)
- Ed Wood (0)
- Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (0)
- Lessons of Darkness (0)
- Fata Morgana (0)
- Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (0)
- Richard III (0)
- The Fog (0)
- Inside Man (18)
- Storytelling (0)
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (0)
- Bamboozled (2)
- The Man with Two Brains (1)
- Man With a Plan (0)
- The Whales of August (1)
- Brighton Rock (0)
- The Day After Tomorrow (0)
- The Innocents (0)
- Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (0)
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (0)
- The Red Shoes (0)
- Breakfast on Pluto (0)
- Drawing Restraint 9 (0)
- H Is for House (0)
- Open Water (0)
- Return of the Evil Dead (0)
- The Shaft (0)
- Rooster—Spurs of Death! (0)
- Predator (0)
- Crash (0)
- Vincent (0)
- Brokeback Mountain (0)
- Das Experiment (0)
- A History Of Violence (5)
- The Proposition (0)
- The Girl Next Door (0)
- Malek Khorshid (1)
- Soldiers Pay (0)
- Al Gore Documentary (0)
- The Baxter (0)
- Crash (0)
- The House on Sorority Row (0)
- The Baxter (0)
- Crash (0)
- M. Butterfly (0)
- The Squid And The Whale (8)
- The Road To Guantanamo (0)
- The Defiant Ones (0)
- A History of Violence (1)
- Pride & Prejudice (0)
- Domino (1)
- Palindromes (0)
- Greendale (0)
- Must Love Dogs (0)
- Shopgirl (0)
- The Lavender Hill Mob (0)
- Junebug (0)
- Saw 2 (0)
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (0)
- Cremaster 3 (0)
- The Flower Of Evil (0)
- The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1)
- Edvard Munch (0)
- Be Here to Love Me (0)
- La Légende d’Eer (0)
- Enduring Love (0)
- Serenity (0)
- Roger Dodger (0)
- War of the Worlds (0)
- Basic (0)
- Proof (0)
- Fantastic Four (3)
- In A Lonely Place (0)
- The Fly (1)
- Dune (Extended TV Edition) (0)
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Crash / USA / 2004
Crash lacks both the desperation and comedy that characterize its peers in patchwork, ensemble exercises in the coincidental. Its sledgehammer irony is as lucent as it is contrived—a woman is pinned in her overturned SUV, and is rescued by the same racist, sexist policeman that molested her in a routine (and unwarranted) pull-over the previous evening. Her screaming demand for him to leave her alone is drowned out by the policeman’s instant compassion (and the film’s Eno-esque score). She’s won over, and her life is saved; it’s the sort of transformation persuasive to the sort of films that the Academy bestows with gold. This compassion is, however, stifled by liberal racism. If the dialogue were muted, save for racial slurs, profanities, and gun shots, it would be exactly the same film.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Lion’s Gate DVD Screener
13 Mar 2006 11:14 AM | Submit Comment